Immigration bill is no compromise

When only one of the extreme sides of each political party is hollering against a bipartisan agreement on any bill, no doubt that side is the only one getting hosed. A true bipartisan bill gets both sides upset. So now begins the spin game by trying to get the few remaining conservative Republicans left in the Senate and all the tea party conservatives in the House to play ball with this amnesty bill ("Getting to yes," April 18). Unfortunately, this bill tries to do everything in one swoop. That is not what the American people asked for.

Polls show that most legal Americans want confirmation that the borders are secured and that e-Verify is in place and operating correctly before addressing the 12 million or more immigrants in this country illegally. After the calamity of the 1986 amnesty legislation that President Ronald Reagan was snookered into signing with a promise to fix the borders, thankfully most Americans are demanding that any new immigration law follow Mr. Reagan's advice that he failed to follow in 1986 of "trust but verify."

I suspect U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, the darling of the tea party who beat a very popular Florida Republican Gov. Charles Crist Jr., will immediately feel the heat for his capitulation to the RINO (Republican In Name Only) Sens. Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake and John McCain. Not only will he probably not receive support for a presidential candidacy, I suspect he will be challenged for his senate seat.

I am not comfortable with the H-2B foreign worker visa program, yet The Sun reported a flattering, one-sided report on its expansion, giving credit to Sen. Barbara Mikulski for "cutting red tape" to once again rescue her major campaign donors in the landscaping and seafood industries ("Md. seafood...

I read with interest The Sun's article, "More school money sought" (Jan. 12). The article notes that the superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools is requesting an 8.7 percent increase in the school budget. In part, the increase is needed due to "an influx of children in need" and "to hire...

Maryland saw an influx of unaccompanied children from Central America this summer. Today, we have more than 3,000 of these kids. I'm glad Maryland is harboring, them but each has a sword of Damocles over his or her head ("Montgomery Co. is latest to limit immigration detainers," Oct. 7). As Customs...

It comes as no surprise that The Sun's editorial board has jumped on the anti-Donald Trump bandwagon trumpeting the usual racist label when they have no other legitimate counter argument ("The summer of hate," July 13). The editors obviously have not read nor comprehended the scope of the 1996...

There is something truly unsavory about targeting for deportation immigrant children — particularly those known by the shorthand of "dreamers" who were brought to this country at a young age by their parents — but that was the priority of House Republicans last week. Not all in the GOP went along,...

John Fritze and Luke Broadwater's article "Baltimore weighs in on immigration lawsuit" ("Jan. 24) does an excellent job of identifying some of the potential economic pros and cons of undocumented immigrants living in our communities. It discusses "a federal lawsuit that has divided state and local...

Democrats are telling Republicans to put the American people first and pass a clean Department of Homeland Security funding bill because Democratic senators will not accept anything other than a clean bill ("Congress OKs deal to avoid shutdown at Homeland Security," Feb. 27). Republicans say they...

Some thoughts on your editorial regarding the U.S. Department of Homeland Security budget while basking in climate cooling ("No time to make America less safe," Feb. 16). First, why is it OK for the Democrats to filibuster and not pay a price when the GOP would be blasted for the same technique?